As eccentric as it is cunning, Greenberg's densely packed script sends
your mind spinning while you laugh... Diffidence has rarely provided an
audience with such enthrallingly readable hidden agendas. - Michael
Feingold, Village Voice
The Assembled Parties is Greenberg's most richly emotional work in
years, and the most beautifully detailed. - Jesse Green, New York
This tragicomedy shocks us into realizing how hungry we have been for
witty and wounded grownups who toss off gorgeously written observations
without knowing how little we know about what we think we know. - Linda
Winer, Newsday
Meet the Bascovs, an Upper West Side Jewish family in 1980. In an
opulent apartment overlooking Central Park, former movie star Julie and
her sister-in-law Faye bring their families together for a traditional
holiday dinner on a night when things don't go as planned. Twenty years
later, as 2001 approaches, the Bascovs' life may be about to crumble. An
incisive portrait of a family grasping for stability at the dawn of a
new millennium, The Assembled Parties premiered on Broadway in 2013 to
rave reviews and a Tony Award nomination for Best Play.
Richard Greenberg has written two dozen plays, including Take Me
Out (Tony Award for Best Play), The Dazzle (Outer Critics Circle
Award), Three Days of Rain (L.A. Drama Critics Award, Pulitzer Prize
finalist), The American Plan and the book for a musical adaptation of
Far from Heaven. He has received the Oppenheimer Award for a new
playwright as well as the first PEN/Laura Pels Award for a playwright in
midcareer.
